Best Haiku About the Alibi:So very much time,And so many typewriters.The monkeys did it.

—Steve Bishop, 2005

• The National Poetry Slam comes to the 505, and Albuquerque’s team emerges victorious.

• ABC Family shows up in Albuquerque to shoot the teen drama “Wildfire.” (It’s about a girl and her horse.) The show spends four seasons in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho and Algodones, beating both “Breaking Bad” and “In Plain Sight” to the punch by three years.

• The old Gaslite Motel on Central gets razed.

• Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast in August.

• FEMA drops almost 100 traumatized New Orleans evacuees off in Albuquerque, and the city scrambles to provide them with basic services.